What a beautiful morning!

This is the most beautiful morning in these ten days.
The sky is not blue but the sun is shining.
It is getting hotter but not very humid.

I am so comfortable that I feel like going out of
my small apartment. But I have to prepare for a bus
trip to Hakuba, where I'll stay overnight.

I'll be enjoying the mountain scenery and alpine plants
in Shinshu tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

I am looking forward to walking in the mountains,
whether rain or shine.

(from the window of my apartment, at 10 o'clock)

koharu's world

koharu, my 6-year-old granddaughter, loves tamagotch
character goods.

She herself formed the paper clay into some of her favorite
tamagotch characters.

The boy in the middle of the picture is her brother.
She loves him, too.

What is tamagotch? I have to ask her how to play with it.

on my way to・・・

I had a meeting at a community center in the morning.
I usually go there by bicycle but today I strolled to the center.

On the way to the community center, there are two small open
areas with grass and trees.

There are a few wooden benches there.
I do love to sit there and look up at the sky.

I saw asa-gao, morning glories, in the bush. They reminded me
of my childhood when I used to see morning glory everywhere.

I saw pink fu-yo, confederate rose, blooming beautifully.

Mt. Mitake in Oume

yesterday Ms. Y and I went up into Mt. Mitake in cable car.
Then we took a bar lift and arrived at a garden where
"renge-shoma festival" was held. Renge-shoma in the garden
was 70% in bloom. Renge-shoma was an elegant flower.

After having lunch, we walked toward "Musashi-Mitake Shrine."
I prayed for love and peace. I was pleasant and grateful
for being alive.

Mt. Mitake is 929 meters high. It was not hot at all there.
I enjoyed an early autumn day in the mountains.


(from Mt.Mitake)


(susuki)


(renge-shoma)

a few more pictures of Niigata

(from Toki Messe--on Aug. 1)


(from Bandai-bashi--on Jul.29)


(the path to the beach my daughter and I used to take--on Jul.30)